According to the newest studies, the importance of sun exposure continues to be the optimal way for improving the levels of vitamin D. During winter, the sun exposure is limited for the majority of people, and within this period of time, some people’s best bet would be artificial UVB lights.

It’s clear that the lack of vitamin D is becoming epidemic worldwide and it’s the reason for thousands of health problems. In case you find this fact hard to believe in, just remember that vitamin D has influence over 3.000 genes out of 24.000 in total.

Vitamin D Beneficially Affects Gene Activity

As one example of how vitamin D influences an important gene, is the one where vitamin D regulates the capability of the body to fight chronic inflammation and inflammation. At the same time, it produces more than 200 anti-microbial peptides, among which cathelicidin is the most important of all.

Based on a press released by Orthomolecular Medicine in 2013, in more than 33,800 medical papers that contained the word ‘vitamin D’ in the abstract or title, was proved that vitamin D has innumerate benefits to your mental and physical health.

In many of them, it was demonstrated how vitamin D improve depression and relieves pain in Crohn’s disease, diabetics, and breast cancer.

Why Researchers Recommend Vitamin D3 Over D2

Drisdol, is the form of vitamin D which is prescribed by doctors. It’s actually a synthetic form of vitamin D2 which is made by plant matter and irradiating fungus. s It’s the type you’re your body produces as a response to sun or safe tanning bed exposure, i.e. vitamin D3.

In a meta-analysis conducted by the Cochrane Database in 2012, which assessed the mortality of people who took D2 as a supplement in their diets and the mortality of those who supplemented with D3, it was proved that:

A 6% risk reduction in the people who used vitamin D3

A 2% risk increase in those who used D2

According to the results, vitamin D plays a major role in the management of diabetes (type 2) and associated counter-effects.

In a recent report by World Science, Professor Kefah Mokbel, a British breast cancer surgeon, advisesa all women to take vitamin D supplements on a daily basis in order to lower the breast cancer risk.

Based on the article:

Mokbel requested the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to make vitamin D pills available for free in order more than 1,000 lives worldwide to be saved on an annual basis. At the same time, he is calls all women above the age of 20 to be provided with free vitamin D supplements since they will protect them against breast cancer.

Vitamin D Is Essential for Cancer Prevention

Namely, a lot of studies showed that vitamin D has extraordinary protective effects against pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, breast cancer, and skin cancers. In fact, many theories linked the vitamin D deficiency to cancer on the basis of the previously conducted 200 epidemiological studies.

For example, in a study published in 2017 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, it was found that the survival of cancer-free cells was 77% higher in women who received 1,100 IU vitamin D and 1,450 mg calcium on a daily basis after 4 years of follow up, in comparison with the ones who received either calcium or a placebo itself. The founder of GrassrootsHealth, Mr. Carole Baggerly, said that 90% of breast cancer is related to deficiency of vitamin D and it was even described as a ‘syndrome of vitamin D deficiency’.

How to recognize if the level of vitamin D is not in the right range? The best way is to check it serum each 6 months. The optimal serum level is 50-70 ng/ml, and to keep that level throughout the year. Check your lowest point (in February) and test at your highest point (August). It’s extremely important to know your levels of vitamin D, meaning that in case you haven’t done this so far, check it immediately.

Vitamin D’s Role in Prevention of Diseases

A large number of studies have shown that vitamin D plays an extremely important role in preventing diseases and maintaining optimal health. Our body contains around 30,000 genes from which 3000 are affected directly by vitamin D, not to mention the vitamin D receptors located throughout our body which are affected as well.

A recent large-scale study has shown that optimal vitamin D levels reduce the risk of cancer by 60%, so keeping your levels optimized means that you are protected from at least 16 different types of cancer including lung, pancreatic, prostate, and ovarian as well as skin cancer.